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October 10, 2022
PRODUCTHEAD: Playing Whack-a-mole with symptoms
PRODUCTHEAD is a regular newsletter of product management goodness,
curated by Jock Busuttil.
Treating symptoms may provide short-term relief but does not alter the status quo
Root cause analysis helps us to systematically prevent future issues or to repeat successes
Impact maps help to connect what we choose to build and why we choose to build it
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October 5, 2022
Billion-dollar platforms — how they did it
I was asked recently whether platforms will conquer the world. My view? They already have. In this article I share how they’ve done it, and how you can successfully bring your own platform to market.
Ubiquitous platformsAlmost every aspect of our lives relies on some kind of software platform, whether it’s the apps on our smartphone, the online marketplaces we buy from, the payments we make, the comments we post on social media, or the television shows and movies we stream. Even the c...
October 3, 2022
PRODUCTHEAD: Communication toolkit recap
PRODUCTHEAD is a regular newsletter of product management goodness,
curated by Jock Busuttil.
In case you missed it: recap of the communication toolkit
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every PRODUCTHEAD edition is online for you to refer back to
helloJust a quick one for you this week as I’m also working on a longer form article for I Manage Products.
In the article I’ll be looking ...
September 26, 2022
PRODUCTHEAD: It’s okay to be proud of your achievements
PRODUCTHEAD is a regular newsletter of product management goodness,
curated by Jock Busuttil.
To earn trust you need people to know what you’ve achieved
Weeknotes are a way to work in the open, reflect and attain a sense of achievement
Being trusted makes it easier for you to carve out the space your team needs to succeed
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September 19, 2022
PRODUCTHEAD: Bad communication — how to annoy and alienate your users
PRODUCTHEAD is a regular newsletter of product management goodness,
curated by Jock Busuttil.
Celsys are going to start charging for software updates to their popular Clip Studio Paint product
The way Celsys communicated this to their users caused outrage — some of which was justified
Fog Creek found themselves trying to monetise their viral product Trello, which it had promised would be free forever
Fog...
September 12, 2022
PRODUCTHEAD: Will platforms conquer the world?
PRODUCTHEAD is a regular newsletter of product management goodness,
curated by Jock Busuttil.
In solving their own internal scaling problem, Amazon inadvertently created the building blocks for the AWS platform
Stripe’s founders didn’t shy away from tackling an unattractively difficult problem
Platforms connect different sides of a market, even if they have dramatically different needs and capabilities
Twilio’s founder p...
September 7, 2022
87: An exercise in stakeholder alignment
I’m writing about 100 things I’ve learned the hard way about product management. You can catch up on the previous entries if you like.
One of the more uncomfortable scenarios I’ve spoken about before is when your stakeholders each have their own interpretations of the product strategy or broader corporate strategy. This lack of stakeholder alignment will cause you no end of problems.
These may range from simple misunderstandings of what you’re doing and why, to outright opposition, bec...
September 5, 2022
PRODUCTHEAD: Back to school
PRODUCTHEAD is a regular newsletter of product management goodness,
curated by Jock Busuttil.
Every other team is allowed to be uncertain about the future — so should product
There are different types of question for strategy, opportunities and interventions
Avoid investments that are neither defense nor offense
What people say and how they really feel can often vary
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August 29, 2022
PRODUCTHEAD: Should I retire … (my product)?
PRODUCTHEAD is a regular newsletter of product management goodness,
curated by Jock Busuttil.
Your users must value your product more than it would costs them to switch
An end-of-life policy sets out the process you will use to retire products for customers
Think about your users and customers’ technical and economic issues first
Retiring a product gracefully means making a plan
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PRODUCTHEAD: Should I retire … ?
PRODUCTHEAD is a regular newsletter of product management goodness,
curated by Jock Busuttil.
Your users must value your product more than it would costs them to switch
An end-of-life policy sets out the process you will use to retire products for customers
Think about your users and customers’ technical and economic issues first
Retiring a product gracefully means making a plan
a favour: please share t...
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